Exam revision


Download the revision booklet here: yr9_examrevision2008.pdf

Contents of the exam:
  1. Industrial revolution
  2. Aboriginal issues
  3. People Power (Politics)

The overarching ideas of the three units you have studied this year are:
  • Human Interaction with the environment can have lasting impacts
  • Communities require an informed and cooperative approach in order to ensure sustainability
  • Natural Processes shape the planet
  • The unequal distribution of wealth is based on a complex web of factors
  • The enduring legacies of our past are all around us
  • Societies have different sets of laws, approaches to leadership and access to justice

Aboriginal issues: Settlement or Invasion


Look over your assessment task again.
Invasion or Settlement notes:
European ideas of land as a commodity, something which could be owned, bought and sold, over-stocked and stripped of cover, mined and despoiled were un-natural and unacceptable to Aboriginal people.

Settlement
1.the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
2.the act of making stable or putting on a permanent basis.
3.a state of stability or permanence.

Invasion
1: an act of invading; especially : incursion of an army for conquest or plunder
2: the incoming or spread of something usually hurtful.

PQE

Use the PQE technique to answer questions about graphs.
  • P – general pattern
  • Q – quantification
  • E – exceptions

There are three steps in describing a distribution pattern or graph using the PQE technique:

The General Pattern (P) – this is generally something that you notice about the overall data. It might be a dominant colour or category on a map, or the shape of a line on a graph.

Quantification (Q) – this is the adding of statistics to give specific detail to the pattern and to define the pattern more closely. To assist in quantification it is common to name regions and provide examples of the pattern using statistics.

Exceptions (E) – where something does not fit the overall pattern, it is known as an exception. Exceptions need to be identified and quantified.